Main Inclusion Report for usbmuxd

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/u/usbmuxd; available for all supported architectures

2. Rationale:

   • Depends for libiphone which is a requirement for the new gvfs afc backend

3. Security:

   • CVE entries: no CVE entries

   • Secunia history: no secunia history

   • No setuid or setgid binary but a daemon which talks to usb devices
   • No network activity but dialogs with iphone devices over usb cable
   • Deal with devices not files
   • Any source code review performed ? No but upstream would welcome a review + opinions on device access restriction

4. Quality assurance:

   • Work out of the box
   • No debconf question

   • Debian bugs: Not in Debian

   • Maintenance in Debian Not in Debian

   • [[http://marcansoft.com/blog/iphonelinux/usbmuxd/] is seeing a slow number of commits

   • Upstream bug tracker: No bug tracker but a mailing list

   • Hardware: it talks to iphone devices
   • No test suite

5. UI standards:

   • No user interface, no user string, no translation

6. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliant

   • Packaging system: debhelper, no patch system used yet

7. Dependencies:

   • libusb which is in main

8. Maintenance:

   • How much maintenance is this package likely to need ? Unknown but is expected to just work
   • Who is responsible for monitoring the quality of this package and fixing its bugs ? Nobody
   • Who is the package bug contact in Ubuntu? None assigned

9. Background information:

   • The general purpose and context of the package is clear from the package's debian/control file.
   • What do upstream call this software ? usbmuxd, no different naming

10. Internationalization:

    • No string to translate or translations

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/494549